NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIG

No. 8.

33 N.Y.3d 20 (2019)

123 N.E.3d 218

99 N.Y.S.3d 734

2019 NY Slip Op 01259

In the Matter of NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION. ANN M. SOUTH, Individually and as Executor of MASON T. SOUTH, Respondent, v. CHEVRON CORPORATION, Individually and as Successor by Merger to TEXACO INC., et al., Appellant, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided February 21, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones Day, New York City ( Meir Feder , Thomas E. Lynch and Rajeev Muttreja of counsel), and Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York City ( Elizabeth M. Young of counsel), for appellant.

Motley Rice LLC, Washington, D.C. ( Louis M. Bograd , of the Kentucky and District of Columbia bars, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), New York City ( Michael M. Buchman of counsel) and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina ( Donald A. Migliori of counsel), for respondent.

Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford, P.C., New York City ( Mark S. Landman of counsel), and Association of American Railroads, Washington D.C. ( Kathryn D. Kirmayer and Daniel Saphire of counsel), for Association of American Railroads, amicus curiae.


OPINION OF THE COURT

Mason South and his wife sued Chevron Corporation1 and several other defendants, alleging that the defendants are responsible for causing his mesothelioma, from which he died in May 2015. Chevron moved for summary judgment based...

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